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Spalding, David

David

Spalding

Born in Sheffield, England, David Spalding studied geology at the University of Sheffield and commenced a career in museum work which brought him to Alberta in 1967. Along with positions in museums, consulting work in heritage management and planning, and performance as a folk…

Spencer, Oliver Dean

Montreal

Oliver Dean

Spencer

Montreal

OLIVER DEAN SPENCER is an international crime fiction writer and artist who spends his time between Rome, Italy and Montreal, Canada. To date, he’s published four novels, three as part of the James Cartwright PI series: The Spencer Files (Book 1), Call of the Nightingale (Book…

Spencer, Kim

Prince Rupert

Kim

Spencer

Prince Rupert

Kim Spencer graduated from the Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University, where she focused on creative nonfiction. Kim’s debut novel Weird Rules to Follow received a Kirkus-starred review. It was named a USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book …

Spenst, Kevin

Vancouver

Kevin

Spenst

Vancouver

Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015), Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) and A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press 2024) along with 16 chapbooks, including…

Spracklin, Floyd

Corner Brook

Floyd

Spracklin

Corner Brook

Floyd Spracklin was born in Buchans eleven months after Newfoundland became Canada’s 10th Province, He graduated from Memorial University of NL(1972) with a double major in English and History, and in 1995 earned an MEd from the University of New Brunswick. He taught…

Owen Sound

Owen Sound

Ron Srigley is a writer and academic. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, L’Obs, Canadian Dimension, Education Canada, and the MIT Technology Review, as well as in scholarly journals. He teaches philosophy and religious…

Stachniak, Eva

TORONTO

Eva

Stachniak

TORONTO

Eva Stachniak, born and raised in Wrocław, Poland, came to Canada in 1981 on scholarship to the Department of English, McGill University, in Montreal. In Poland she taught English literature at the University of Wroclaw. In Canada she has been a radio broadcaster and…

Toronto

Toronto

Marissa Stapley is the author of the critically acclaimed Globe and Mail bestselling novel Mating for Life, which was released in 2014 by Atria Books and Simon & Schuster Canada and reprinted in June 2016, and Things to Do When It's Raining, out in February 2018 with Graydon…

Starchuck, Lana

Etobicoke

Lana

Starchuck

Etobicoke

Lana Pesch’s story collection, Moving Parts, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Awards. As of January 2024, she has reclaimed her birth name, Lana Starchuck, post divorce. Her writing has appeared in Little Bird Stories: Volumes I…

State, Hannah D.

Hannah D.

State

Hannah D. State is an award-winning Canadian author and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her debut novel, Journey to the Hopewell Star, was named “A Must-Have New Brunswick Book of 2020” by Atlantic Books Today, received the Literary Titan Gold Award, was a “RED RIBBON…

Staunton, Ted

Port Hope

Ted

Staunton

Port Hope

Ted Staunton has been publishing stories since writing a picture book called "Puddleman" for a university class way back in the '80s. Since then he's written over forty books of fiction and non-fiction for readers of middle-grade, YA, picture books, beginning…

Steele, Erin

Kelowna

Erin

Steele

Kelowna

Erin Steele is author of SUNRISE OVER HALF-BUILT HOUSES, writes On Being Human on Substack and is a former national-award-winning journalist. She’s also the founder and chief strategist at boutique marketing firm Blue Heron Agency. She's been…

Stefanovich-Thomson, Alexis

Toronto

Alexis

Stefanovich-Thomson

Toronto

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto with his partner and their two children. His novella “The Man Who Went Down Under” won both the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023). He placed third in the Toronto…

Steinfeld, J. J.

Charlottetown

J. J.

Steinfeld

Charlottetown

Fiction writer, poet, and playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island (Epekwitk), where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-five books: two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of…

Steinmetz, Andrew

Ottawa

Andrew

Steinmetz

Ottawa

Andrew Steinmetz was born in Montreal in 1965. He strums the guitar and pushes a pen. He writes fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry and songs. He’s been the lucky finalist of numerous prizes, including the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the…

Stemp, Heather

North Bay

Heather

Stemp

North Bay

Heather Stemp has a B.A. in English an M.Ed. in Special Education and 24 years of teaching experience in English, Physical Education, Cooperative Education, and Special Education at the secondary school level. For the last six years of her 30-year career, she taught Educational…

Stenson, Fred

Pincher Creek/Treaty 7

Fred

Stenson

Pincher Creek/Treaty 7

Stenson has published twenty books. He is two time winner of Alberta's Grant MacEwan Author Prize and also winner of The Writers' Guild of Alberta novel award. His novel The Trade was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2000. His novel The Great Karoo was a finalist for the…

Neustadt

Neustadt

Over the past 40 years I’ve worked all sides of the publishing desk: journalist, ghost-writer, author, editor, publisher. I have four novels, two collections of short fiction, and three non-fiction books in publication. I co-edited with Susan MacGregor, Tesseracts Twenty-…

Candiac

Candiac

L.E. Sterling (also published under pen names L. E. Vollick and Erin Vollick) is the author of multiple novels spanning contemporary, fantasy, science-fiction, dystopian and romance genres. Her hit Young Adult series, the True Born Trilogy (Entangled Teen) was optioned for…

Stern, Joshua

Grand Valley

Joshua

Stern

Grand Valley

Joshua is a writer, life coach and philanthropist who has a passion for helping youth navigate the turbulent waters of growing up. He has created a series of children's books dedicated to his efforts. The Tasha series follows a young German Shepherd experiencing all the…